Ipswich Zoo – How to make animals talk

Here is a look at how I made the animals talk for the Ipswich Zoo commercial.

It was a fun challenge to get the animals to be still for the camera and move so that it looks like they are talking.

I used ‘Syntheyes’ to track the heads of the animals. Which I then took into Modo and created the CG mouths for animation.

Animation was completed in Modo and the rendered layers were then composited in After Effects.